"...they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other
scriptures, unto their own destruction." 2 Peter 3:16

For example: Luke 6:37 where Jesus says: Judge not,
and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive,
and ye shall be forgiven:

There is a difference in judging people and
judging what people do. Christians are not to condemn people, but that are
called to "reprove the world of sin," to discern between good and evil, sin and
righteousness of God as defined by the Word of God.

In the same discourse, Jesus also said:
For
a good tree brings not forth corrupt fruit; neither does a corrupt tree bring
forth good fruit. For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns
men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. A good man
out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good; and an
evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth that which is
evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. And why call ye
me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? (Luke 6:43-46)

Therefore, those who selectively pick and choose the Words of God in an attempt
to justify their sin do so at their own peril as Peter declared (2 Peter 3:16).
When Jesus said
"And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things
which I say?" Jesus also declared: " For the
Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son: That all men
should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son
honors not the Father which has sent him. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He
that hears my word, and believes on Him that sent me, has everlasting life, and
shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. And has
given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the
graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good,
unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the
resurrection of damnation. (John 5:22-24, 27-29)

The Foundation

- John 7:24 - Judge not according to
the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

- 1 John 4:11 - Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
- John 8:15 - Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.
- 2 Corinthians 5:16a - Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh:
(Created in His image? Perhaps if we are not to "know no man after the flesh," we
are to "know him" after his eternal spirit. He that has ears to hear let him
hear.)

When progressive liberals say: "Doesn't the Bible tell us not to judge?"
Inform them they have selectively quoted part of the teaching of Christ.
Progressive liberals are "but evil men and seducers who shall wax
worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived." (2 Timothy 3:13 ) Progressive
liberals, in the same manner, are selective about, tolerance, diversity, rights,
justice, discrimination, ethics, science, free speech, and history, due to a
lack of self-discipline and eschewing the premise of “the
Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.”

In the same manner as we (citizens of the Kingdom of God)
only recognize "male and female created He them" and not "race" or the person's
ethnicity, we are also implored to "know no man after the flesh" which can only
mean to only "know" or focus on the spirit of the person, not the mind or body,
the spiritual, not the natural. In this, Godly way (His design), like Him we can
neither lift or debase, the eternal being (spirit) of people. As Jesus provided
the example, to have compassion and "challenge" (judge in righteousness), the
sin in order to rescue (redeem) the sinner into God's plan (the blood) of
redemption.

2 Corinthians 5:16 - Wherefore henceforth
know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the
flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.

1 Corinthians 2:10-16
- But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit
searches all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things
of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God
knows no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the
world, but the spirit which is of God;
that we might know the
things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in
the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches;
comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receives not the
things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he
know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual
judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who has known the
mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

"Judge not, that you be not judged" (Matthew
7:1) instructs us to judge carefully without hypocrisy, it does not say withhold
judgment. Jesus completes this by saying: "Hypocrite! First remove the plank
from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your
brother's eye." (Matthew 7:5) Jesus reaffirms this in John 7:24.

Jesus, immediately after His discourse on judging (Matthew 7:1-5)
refers to unbelievers as dogs and pigs (Mt. 7:6) and false prophets as "ravening
wolves" (Mt. 7:15). This should provide believers a reference when
confronted by unbelievers with the "judge not" fallacy. How polite was Jesus to
those who would lead astray, calling them "blind guides,
full of hypocrisy and iniquity, serpents, generation of vipers, and how can ye
escape the damnation of hell?" Should this
not provide believers a reference when confronted by unbelievers with the "judge
not" fallacy?

Therefore, do not fall prey to those who say we are not to judge one another. How are
Christians then called to "reprove the world of sin," to be the "salt of the
earth" and the "Light of the World?"
Many timid Christians have been deceptively silenced, because they are
unsure of their foundation in Christ. Progressives have successfully used the
ploy of false charges that Christians are being offensive, and intolerant, and
worse, have fallen prey to the mistaken claim that Christians should not judge.
This reveals many Christians are not founded on the Word of God, do not wear in
the full armor of God, and are disobedient to their Lord's call to be the Salt &
Light of the earth to boldly preaching the Word of God and reproving the world
of sin.

Consider Ezekiel 33: 7 – 9: “Thus says the
Lord: you, son of man, I have
appointed watchman for the house of Israel; when you hear me say anything, you
shall warn them for me if
I tell the wicked, ‘oh, wicked one, you shall surely die,’ and you do not speak
out to dissuade the
wicked one from his way, he shall die for his guilt, but I will hold you
responsible for his death. But
if you warn the wicked, trying to turn him from his way, and he refuses to turn
from his way, he shall die for his guilt, but you shall save yourself.

"Reproof" and "condemnation"

Matthew 4:16-17 - The people which sat in darkness saw great
light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung
up. From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say,
Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

John 3:18-21 - He that believes on him is
not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not
believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the
condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather
than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that does evil hates
the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he
that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that
they are wrought in God.

Jesus the ‘Intolerant Bigot’ - By
Matt Barber - “The
Gospel of Christ doesn’t care about ‘tolerance.’ It cares about truth.” These
words caused me to look up from my Bible
Gateway app where I was reading along with selected scriptures. Matt Short,
missions pastor at One Community Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, had just uttered
from the pulpit a profound reality that, regrettably, we hear far too
infrequently from this millennial generation (or any generation for that
matter). ...To be sure, under the contemporary misconception of “tolerance,”
which supposes that one must not only tolerate sin of every stripe, but refuse
to call it even that, Christ was (and is) intolerant indeed. Rather than
admonishing the adulterous woman to, “Go now and leave your
life of sin” (see John 8:11), postmodernism, to include
the moral relativist yeast that leavens the body of Christ, demands, at once,
that our never-changing Lord change the unchangeable: “Go now and continue your
life of sin.”

...Wrote Paul: “I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the
one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different
gospel which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you
into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or
an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to
you, let them be under God’s curse!” (Galatians 1:6-8) ...And
so, according to Paul, those who shrink from the “full counsel of God,” are not
only out of line, they are under “God’s curse.” The fall he took on the road to
Damascus clearly knocked free his ability to skate the thin ice of political
correctness.

Still, like the Galatians, far too many in today’s church are more
concerned with not offending others, most especially those who are without
Christ, and, rather than being fearless “servants of Christ,” instead have
busied themselves with “trying to please people.” And, like the Galatians, they
have created a false gospel to that end. Pleasing the world is not taking up
your cross and suffering for Christ. Pleasing the world is a cakewalk. “If you
belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong
to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world
hates you” (John 15:19).

Proverbs 9:6-10 - Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the
way of understanding. He that reproves a scorner gets to himself shame: and he
that rebukes a wicked man gets himself a blot. Reprove not a scorner, lest he
hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. Give instruction to a wise
man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in
learning. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of
the holy is understanding.

Any message from the Word of God about "judging" is incomplete if "reproof" is
not included in that message. To him that has ears to hear.

John 3:19-20 - And this is the
condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather
than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that does evil hates
the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

Many proclaim John 3:16 but neglect to proclaim what Jesus said in the same
breath through verse 21. Also, how did Jesus handle the woman taken in adultery?

John 8:3-11 - And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him
a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto
him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the
law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they
said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down,
and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when
they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them,
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a
stone at her. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And
they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by
one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and
the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none
but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those
thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And
Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin
no more.

Is the person's temporary pleasure our primary concern or their eternal home?
Is an earthly father's temporary discipline of his child his primary concern or
that of providing direction for a lasting impression and a virtuous foundation
for life?

2 Timothy 3:13-4:5 - But evil men and seducers shall wax
worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. But continue thou in the things
which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast
learned them; And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which
are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ
Jesus.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That
the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. I charge
thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick
and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove,
rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when
they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap
to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears
from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things,
endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy
ministry.

Neither Peter nor Paul were squeamish about
judging others

Peter said to Simon the magician “Your heart is not upright before God. Repent
of this wickedness of
yours … for I see that you are filled with bitter gall, and you are in the bonds
of iniquity” (Acts 8: 20–23).

Paul said to Elymas, “you son of the devil, you enemy of all that is right, full
of every sort of deceit
and fraud. Will you not stop twisting the straight paths of the Lord?” (Acts 13:
9–10).

Here are some excerpts from the epistles that illustrate judgment:

But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was
to be blamed. (Galatians 2:11).

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such
an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be
tempted. 2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. (Galatians 6:1-2).

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove
them. (Ephesians 5:11)

Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear. (1 Timothy 5:20).

For the grace of God that brings salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us
that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly,
righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope,
and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who
gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto
himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. ¶These things speak, and
exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee. (Titus 2:11-15)

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such
fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have
his father's wife. And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he
that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. For I verily, as
absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were
present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, In the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of
our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of
the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 1
Corinthians 5:1-5

Wisdom Quotes

Martin Luther King Jr.: "In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our
friends." ..."He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
..."If I profess with the
loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except
precisely that little
point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, I am not
confessing Christ, however
boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of
the soldier is proved,
and to be steady on all the battle front besides, is mere flight and disgrace if
he flinches at that point."

Albert Einstein: "The world is a dangerous place to live not because of the people who are evil,
but because of the people
who don't do anything about it."

Theodore Roosevelt: "To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men
who do things is easy, but
it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's
doing." ..."A compromise which results in a half-step toward evil is
all wrong."

Noah Webster provided the text book, History of the United States, used for over
60 years in public
schools contained this statement: "The moral principles and precepts contained
in the Scripture ought to
form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws." And " All the miseries
and evils which men
suffer from - vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war -
proceed from their
despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible."

Edmund Burke: "All that is
necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing." ..."Nobody made a
greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."

George Washington: "We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has
changed for the better, so I
trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new
Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times."

John G.
Diefenbaker: "Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong."

Thomas Paine (Common Sense, 1776)
Reference: "Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state,
is but a necessary evil;
in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the
same miseries by a
government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity
is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer."

The Word of God

Psalms 9:17 - The sinners and all the nations who have no
memory of God will be turned into the underworld.

Colossians 3:12-16 - Put on therefore, as the elect of God,
holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness,
longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man
have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above
all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. And let the
peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body;
and be ye thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;
teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Ezekiel 3:18-19 (BBE) - When I say to the evil-doer, Death
will certainly be your fate; and you give him no word of it and say nothing to
make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his evil way, so that he may be safe;
that same evil man will come to death in his evil-doing; but I will make you
responsible for his blood. But if you give the evil-doer word of his danger, and
he is not turned from his sin or from his evil way, death will overtake him in
his evil-doing; but your life will be safe.

Imagine if Jesus, His Apostles, and Paul were apathetic and did not
"reprove the world of sin?" Yet "reproving the world of sin" is what
"Christians" are called to do. (2 Timothy 4:1-5) It is disobedient to preach
only what our Lord said in John 3:16 and not include what He said in the same
breath through verse 21.
Christians have become defensive which compromises
the Word of God they are called to uphold.

2 Timothy 4:2-5 - Preach the word; be instant in season, out
of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the
time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own
lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they
shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But
watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make
full proof of thy ministry.

As with any sin and sinner, keep in mind: "But God commends his love toward us,
in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8) How did
Jesus handle Martha? Yet, what did He say to her? (John 8:11) However, the sin
of homosexuality is more disturbing in the FACT that "reprobate minds" (Romans
1) are promoting this lifestyle with its dire health risks to our children,
primarily in America's government-run schools. If we continue to preach only
John 3:16 and not what Jesus said in the same breath (through verse 21) then we
are not obeying our Lord. Imagine if Jesus, the Apostles and Paul did not
"reprove the world of sin?" Did not Jesus come to "destroy the works of the
devil?" (1 john 3:8) "...as my Father hath sent me, even
so send I you." (John 20:21)

The Selective Fallacy of "Do not judge?"

Judge not, that ye be not
judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what
measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why behold you the mote
that is in thy brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye?
Or how will you say to your brother, Let me pull out the mote out of your eye;
and, behold, a beam is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first cast out the
beam out of your own eye; and then shall you see clearly to cast out the mote
out of your brother's eye. Matthew
7:1-5

"Judge not, that you be not judged" (Matthew
7:1) instructs us to judge carefully without hypocrisy, it does not say withhold
judgment. Jesus completes this by saying: "Hypocrite! First remove the plank
from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your
brother's eye." (Matthew 7:5) Jesus reaffirms this in John 7:24.

Jesus, immediately after His discourse on judging (Matthew 7:1-5) refers to
unbelievers as dogs and pigs (Mt. 7:6) and false prophets as "ravening wolves"
(Mt. 7:15). This should provide believers a reference when confronted by
unbelievers with the "judge not" fallacy.

Imagine if Jesus, His Apostles, and Paul were apathetic and did not "reprove the
world of sin?" Yet "reproving the world of sin" is what
"Christians" are called to do. (2 Timothy 4:1-5) It is disobedient to preach
only what our Lord said in John 3:16 and not include what He said in the same
breath through verse 21. .

John 3:19-20 - And this is the condemnation, that light
is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their
deeds were evil. For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to
the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

John 16:8-11 - Nevertheless I tell
you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the
Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And
when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of
judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go
to my Father, and ye see me no more; Of judgment, because the prince of this
world is judged.

John 20:21 - Then said Jesus to them again,
Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send
I you.

Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.John 8:15

Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the
flesh: 2 Corinthians 5:16a

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.1 John
4:11

1 Corinthians 4:1 –5 (Power
New Testament) Thus people must consider us as servants (Personal attendant.
I.E. soldier or guard for a king) of Messiah and stewards of mysteries of God.
Moreover in this case He is seeking among the stewards so that someone faithful
would be found. And to me it is least, it just does not matter, that I would be
judged by you or by a human court: in fact I do not judge myself. For although I
am no longer conscious of anything against myself, and I am not justified by
this, since I am not without sin (Romans 7), the Lord is the One Who judges me.
Thus you do not judge ahead of time until whenever the Lord would come. Who also
will light the hidden things of the darkness and will reveal the purposes of the
hearts: and then the approval will come from God for each one.

Jeremiah 1:17 - Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and
arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their
faces, lest I confound thee before them.

Matthew 10:14-22 - And whosoever shall
not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city,
shake off the dust of your feet. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more
tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for
that city. Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye
therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. But beware of men: for they
will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their
synagogues; And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for
a testimony against them and the Gentiles. But when they deliver you up, take no
thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour
what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father
which speaks in you. And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and
the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and
cause them to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's
sake: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.

John 1:5 - And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness
comprehended it not.

John 3:22 - For every one that does evil
hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

Titus 3:9-11 - But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies,
and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and
vain. A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sins, being condemned of himself.

Luke 11:52 - Woe unto you, lawyers! for
you have taken away the key of knowledge: you entered not in yourselves, and
them that were entering in you hindered.

Isaiah 5:20 - "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good
evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for
sweet, and sweet for bitter!"

Matthew 5:11 - “Blessed are ye, when men
shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against
you falsely, for my sake.”

We are called to preach the Word, not convict and convince, for that is the work
of the Holy Spirit. As Paul indicated, while we plant the "seed" and water, God
causes the increase. (1 Cor. 3:6-7 - I have planted, Apollos
watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that plants any thing,
neither he that waters but God that gives the increase.)

Colossians 4:5-6 - "Walk in wisdom toward them that
are without, redeeming the time. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned
with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man."

1 Peter 3:8-18 - Finally, be ye all of one mind, having
compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not
rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing;
knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. For he
that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil,
and his lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him
seek peace, and ensue it. For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and
his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them
that do evil. And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which
is good?
But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be
not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled; But sanctify the Lord God in
your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a
reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: Having a good
conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be
ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. For it is better,
if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he
might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the
Spirit:

2 Timothy 2:15-19 - Study to shew thyself approved unto God,
a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But
shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; Who
concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already;
and overthrow the faith of some. Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure,
having this seal, The Lord knows them that are his. And, Let every one that
names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

2 Corinthians 6 - We then, as workers together with him,
beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. (For he saith, I
have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured
thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:

But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God,
in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings,
in fastings; By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the
Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
By the word of truth, by the power of God,
by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet
true;
As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live;
as chastened, and not killed;
As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having
nothing, and yet possessing all things.

O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. Ye are not
straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. Now for a recompence
in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath
righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth
with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye
are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and
walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore
come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the
unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye
shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

2 Timothy 3:13-4:5 - But evil men and seducers shall wax
worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. But continue thou in the things
which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast
learned them; And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which
are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ
Jesus.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That
the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. I charge
thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick
and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove,
rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when
they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap
to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears
from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things,
endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy
ministry.

2 Peter 3:3-4 - Knowing this first, that there shall come in
the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the
promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as
they were from the beginning of the creation.

"For everyone that does evil hates the Light..."

Jeremiah
9:24: But let him that glorifies glory in
this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am
the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in
the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD.

The compassionate only know John 3:16. The compassionate who do not
compromise with evil know what our Lord said in the same breath through
verse 21.

Jesus - John 3:16-21: For God
so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God
sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world
through him might be saved. He that believes on him is not condemned:
but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not
believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the
condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness
rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that
does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds
should be reproved. But he that does truth comes to the light, that his
deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Colossians 2:4,8: And this I say, lest any man
should beguile you with enticing words. Beware lest any man spoil you
through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after
the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Psalms 1: Blessed is the man that walks not in the
counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in
the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and
in his law does he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree
planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth his fruit in his
season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he does shall
prosper. The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind
drives away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor
sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the LORD knows the way
of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Ephesians 5:11: And have no fellowship with the
unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

Jesus, John 15:18-19: If the
world hate you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. If you
were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not
of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the
world hates you.

2 Timothy 3:12-17, 4:1-5: Yea, and all that will
live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and
seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. But
continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been
assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that from a
child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee
wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All
scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good
works. ...I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ,
who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke,
exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when
they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall
they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall
turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an
evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

Jesus - John
16:8-11: Nevertheless I tell you the
truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the
Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto
you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of
righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of
righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Of
judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

Micah 3 - And I said,
Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel;
Is it not for you to know judgment? Who hate the good, and love the evil;
who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their
bones; Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off
them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot,
and as flesh within the caldron. Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he
will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as
they have behaved themselves ill in their doings. Thus saith the LORD
concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their
teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that puts not into their mouths, they even
prepare war against him. Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall
not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not
divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be
dark over them. Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners
confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer
of God. But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of
judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to
Israel his sin. Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and
princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all
equity. They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for
hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon
the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem
shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of
the forest.

Acts 4: 18-19 - And they
(Sadducees) called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach
in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said unto them,
Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto
God, judge ye.

How polite was Jesus to those who would lead astray,
calling them "blind guides, full
of hypocrisy and iniquity, serpents, generation of vipers, and how can ye escape the
damnation of hell?"

Matthew 23 - Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to
his disciples, Saying,The scribes and the
Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe,
that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's
shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. But
all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their
phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, And love the uppermost
rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, And greetings in the
markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. But be not ye called Rabbi: for
one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.

And call no man your father upon the earth:
for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for
one is your Master, even Christ. But he that is greatest among you shall be your
servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall
humble himself shall be exalted.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go
in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you,
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a
pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. Woe
unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make
one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell
than yourselves.

Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say,
Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by
the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! Ye fools and blind: for whether is
greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold? And, Whosoever shall
swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever swears by the gift that is upon
it, he is guilty. Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the
altar that sanctifies the gift? Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, swears
by it, and by all things thereon. And whoso shall swear by the temple, swears by
it, and by him that dwells therein. And he that shall swear by heaven, swears by
the throne of God, and by him that sits thereon.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin (dill or fennel), and
have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these
ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides, which
strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but
within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first
that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean
also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto
white sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of
dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear
righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the
sepulchers of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers,
we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them
which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye
serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Wherefore, behold, I send unto you
prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify;
and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from
city to city: That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the
earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of
Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you,
All these things shall come upon this generation. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou
that kill the prophets, and stone them which are sent unto thee, how often would
I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under
her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I
say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he
that comes in the name of the Lord.

The sting of death is sin; and
the strength of sin is the law.1 Corinthians 15:56

Proverbs 6:16-19 (BBE) - Six things are hated by the Lord;
seven things are disgusting to him: Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which
take life without cause; A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in
running after sin; A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets
loose violent acts among brothers.

And Jehoshaphat dwelt at
Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beersheba to mount
Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers. And he set
judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city, And
said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the
LORD, who is with you in the judgment. 2
Chronicles 19:4-6

For there is no respect of persons
with God (Deuteronomy
10:17). For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish
without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the
law; (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of
the law shall be justified. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law,
do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law,
are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their
hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean
while accusing or else excusing one another;) Romans 2:11-15

For whoever would keep the
whole Torah but would stumble in one thing, has become guilty of all. For the
One who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not commit murder:" but
if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a
transgressor of Torah. So you must continually speak, and so you must act as one
going to be judged through the law of freedom. For judgment without mercy is to
be given for the one who does not do mercy: mercy, full of glad confidence, has
no fear of judgment.
James 2:10-13 (
Power New Testament)

Therefore, Jesus was saying to the
Jewish people who believed in Him, "If you would remain
in My Word, you are truly My disciples and you will know the truth, and the
truth will make you free." They answered Him, "We are Abraham's seed
and we have never been slaves: how do You say that "You will become free?" Jesus
answered them, "I most definitely say to you that
everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin. And the slave does not stay in the
house forever, the son does stay forever. If therefore the Son would set you
free, you will truly be free."John 8:31-36 (Power
New Testament)

He that commits sin is of the
devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God
was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 3:8

He that has ears to hear, let him
hear....

Salt & Light Dictates Reproof

A fool despises his father's instruction: but
he that regards reproof is prudent. Correction is grievous unto him that
forsakes the way: and he that hates reproof shall die. A scorner loves not one
that reproves him: neither will he go unto the wise. A reproof enters more into
a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool. When the scorner is punished,
the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge. Proverbs 15:5,10,12,
17:10, 21:11

As stars can only be seen in a dark sky, a believer's Light should be seen by
those living in darkness.

But ye are a chosen generation, a
royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth
the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
1 Peter 2:9

We have also a more sure word of
prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shines in
a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing
this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God
spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 2 Peter 1:19-21

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our
hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the
face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the
excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. 2 Corinthians 4:6-7

Only let your conversation be
as it becomes the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be
absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one
mind striving together for the faith of the gospel; And in nothing terrified by
your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of
salvation, and that of God. For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ,
not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake; Having the same
conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me. Philippians 1:27-30

Do all things without murmurings and disputing: That ye may be blameless and
harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and
perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; Philippians
2:14-15

Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Let your
speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye
ought to answer every man. Colossians 4:5-6

You are the salt of
the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under
foot of men. You are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill
cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on
a candlestick; and it gives light unto all that are in the house. Let your light
so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father
which is in heaven. Matthew 5:13-16

Forasmuch then as Christ has suffered for us in
the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that has suffered
in the flesh has ceased from sin; That he no longer should live the rest of his
time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. For the time past
of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we
walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and
abominable idolatries: Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with
them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: Who shall give
account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. For for this
cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be
judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. 1
Peter 4:1-6

But love ye your enemies,
and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great,
and you shall be the children of the Highest: for He is kind unto the unthankful
and to the evil. Be therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
Judge not, and you shall not be judged: condemn not, and you shall not be
condemned: forgive, and you shall be forgiven: Give, and it shall be given
unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over,
shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you mete withal
it shall be measured to you again. Luke 6:35-38

Judge not, that ye be not
judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what
measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why behold you the mote
that is in thy brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye?
Or how will you say to your brother, Let me pull out the mote out of your eye;
and, behold, a beam is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first cast out the
beam out of your own eye; and then shall you see clearly to cast out the mote
out of your brother's eye. Matthew
7:1-5

"Judge not, that you be not judged" (Matthew
7:1) instructs us to judge carefully without hypocrisy, it does not say withhold
judgment. Jesus completes this by saying: "Hypocrite! First remove the plank
from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your
brother's eye." (Matthew 7:5) Jesus reaffirms this in John 7:24.

Judge not according to
the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. John 7:24

He (Jesus) answered and said
unto them, He that sows the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world;
the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of
the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end
of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are
gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The
Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom
all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a
furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the
righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears
to hear, let him hear.Matthew 13:37-42

"And this is the
condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather
that light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone that does evil hates the
light, and doesn't come to the light, lest their deeds should be reproved."
John 3:19-20

The Christian's role is to be an ambassador
for the Kingdom of God which Jesus has established.
"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be you therefore wise
as serpents, and harmless as doves."Matthew 10:16

1 Corinthians 2:9-16 - But as it is
written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of
man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God has
revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things,
yea, the deep things of God. For what man knows the
things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of
God knows no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have
received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God;
that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which
things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the
Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural
man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto
him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he
that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For
who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the
mind of Christ.

1 Corinthians 6:1-11 - Dare any of
you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not
before the saints? Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if
the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to
this life? If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them
to judge who are least esteemed in the church. I speak to your shame. Is it
so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to
judge between his brethren? But brother goes to law with brother, and that
before the unbelievers. Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you,
because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do
ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud,
and that your brethren. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the
kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves,
nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the
kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are
sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the
Spirit of our God.

Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that
believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serves not for them
that believe not, but for them which believe. If therefore the whole church be
come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in
those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believes not, or one unlearned,
he is convinced of all, he is judged of all: And thus are the secrets of his
heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and
report that God is in you of a truth.1 Corinthians 14:22-25

Ephesians 5:1-17
- Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as
Christ also has loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a
sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. But fornication, and all
uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes
saints; Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not
convenient: but rather giving of thanks. For this ye know, that no whoremonger,
nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater,
has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the
wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers
with them. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord:
walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and
righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove
them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in
secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for
whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
Wherefore he says, Awake you that sleeps, and arise from the dead, and Christ
shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as
wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise,
but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

Blessed is the nation
whose God is the LORD, The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.Psalm 33:12

Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a
reproach to any people. Proverbs 14:34

Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to
see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a
rebellious house. Ezekiel 12:2

And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and
will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary
themselves to commit iniquity. Your habitation is in the midst of deceit;
through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD. Therefore thus says the
LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for
the daughter of my people? Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaks
deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he
lays his wait. Shall I not visit them for these things? says the LORD: shall not
my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? Jeremiah 9:5-9

"Death is more eligible than slavery. A free-born people are
not required by the religion of Jesus Christ to submit to tyranny, but may make
use of such power as God has given them to recover and support their
liberties..." - The men of Marlborough, Massachusetts who took part in the
Boston Tea Party

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come
to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth
pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be
fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and
shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but
whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the
kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall
exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no
case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5:17-20

Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chastens his son,
so the LORD thy God chastens thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the
commandments of the Lord the God, to walk in His ways, and to fear (respect)
Him. Deuteronomy 8:5-6

Who gives rain upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields: To set up on
high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. He
disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform
their enterprise. He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel
of the froward is carried headlong. They meet with darkness in the daytime, and
grope in the noonday as in the night. But he saves the poor from the sword, from
their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. So the poor hath hope, and
iniquity stops her mouth. Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects:
therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
Job 5:10-17

O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, show
thyself. Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? How long
shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of
iniquity boast themselves? They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict
thine heritage. They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard
it. Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will
ye be wise? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye,
shall he not see? He that chastises the heathen, shall not he correct? he that
teaches man knowledge, shall not he know? The LORD knows the thoughts of
man, that they are vanity. Blessed is the man whom thou chastens,
O LORD, and teaches him out of thy law; That thou may give him rest from the
days of adversity, until the pit be dug for the wicked.
Psalms 94:1-13

My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his
correction: For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in
whom he delights. Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the
man that gets understanding. For the merchandise of it is better
than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is
more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be
compared unto her. Proverbs 3:11-15

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly
pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that
he had, and bought it.

Matthew 13:45-46

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself,
lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood,
striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto
you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor
faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and
scourges every son whom he receives. If ye endure chastening, God deals with you
as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not? But if ye be
without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not
sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us,
and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection
unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened
us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we
might be partakers of his holiness. Now no chastening for the present seems to
be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of
righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Wherefore lift up the hands
which hang down, and the feeble knees; And make straight paths for your feet,
lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see
the Lord: Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any
root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one
morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he
would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of
repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. For ye are not come unto
the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness,
and darkness, and tempest, Hebrews 12:3-18

Don't be fooled, Jesus DID NOT say we shouldn't
judge. Jesus said we should judge without hypocrisy.

Imagine if Jesus and St. Paul did not reprove
the world of sin? Have you've been duped into the popular fallacy that we
should "judge not." Please read exactly what Jesus said in John 7:24. Why do
most stop reading John 3 after getting to John 3:16. What did Christ said
immediately after? Should we edit-out 2 Timothy 4 from our Bibles? Why is it
necessary for O'Reilly to write Culture Warrioror Coulter to
writeGodless, or Gingrich to writeRediscovering God in America? He that has ears to hear let them hear what the Spirit is
saying to the churches.

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the
judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the
wicked. Deuteronomy 25:1

On this account you are without excuse, O Man,
everyone who judges: for by what you are judging the other, you are condemning
yourself. For you, the one who judges, are doing the same things. But we know
that the judgment of God is according to truth upon thse who perpetuate things
such as these (Romans 1:24-32). Romans 2:1-2 (Power New Testament)

But if you would call yourself Jewish and would
cause yourself to rest (lean) upon the Torah and to take pride in God then you
know His will and since you are instructed in the Torah, you are testing the
things that differ, holy and profane, and you have persuaded yourself to be a
guide of the blind, a light for those in darkness, an instructor of the foolish,
a teacher of infants, since you have the essence of the knowledge and of the
truth in the Torah: then, why do you, the one who teaches another, not teach
yourself? The one who preaches not to steal, are you stealing? The one who says
not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? The one who detests idols, do
you rob temples? You who boast in Torah, you are dishonoring God by violating
the Torah: for just as it has been written, "The name of God is being blasphemed
among the heathens because of you." (Isaiah 52:5, Ezekiel 36:20). For what
does it profit if the one hand you would practice Torah, in circumcision: if on
the other hand you would be breaking Torah, Your circumcision has become
uncircumcision? Romans 2:17-25 (Power New Testament)

See that no one will take you captive through
philosophy and empty deceit according to the tradition of men,
according to the elements of the world, and not according to Messiah...
Colossians 2:8 (Power New Testament)

Therefore I say this, and I bear witness in the Lord, that you no longer walk as
the heathens walk in the futility of their minds, since they have been darkened
by being in their understanding because they have been alienated from the life
of God through the ignorance which is in them, because of the insensibility of
their hearts, who, when they became callous, gave themselves over to
licentiousness in practice of every impurity, with a desire to have more.
Ephesians 4"17-19 (Power New Testament)

For a good tree brings not forth corrupt fruit; neither does a corrupt tree
bring forth good fruit. For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of
thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. A good
man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good; and
an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth that which is
evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Luke 6:43-45

And the works of the flesh are apparent, which are immorality,
impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery (and drugs), enmity, strife,
jealously, anger, outbreaks of selfishness, dissentions, factions, envy,
drunkenness (any intoxication), carousing, and like things. I tell you
beforehand, just as I told you before, that the ones who are doing things such
as these will not inherit the Kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness
self-control: there is nothing in Torah against such as these. Galatians
5:19-23(Power New Testament
& footnotes)

Judge not according to
the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. John 7:24

Ye judge after the flesh; I
judge no man.John 8:15

Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the
flesh: 2 Corinthians 5:16a

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.1 John
4:11

But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his
countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for
the LORD sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the
LORD looks on the heart. 1 Samuel 16:7

If the church does not reprove the
world of sin, of which politicians, and thus government consists, then are
Christians who are called to be Ambassadors for Christ and the Kingdom of God
compromising their calling?

What was the foundation upon which America's founders
established this great republic? Was it not their Biblical worldview? Go ahead,
Google any of the founders' names along with virtue (eg. "George Washington" +
virtue) and you will quickly learn what our judges, school administrators,
colleges, and politicians have thoroughly abandoned since 1947.

But I say unto you,
That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn
to him the other.Matthew 5:39. See also Luke 6:29.

Jesus said to "turn
the other cheek" in reference to Scripture, as He did consistently.

He gives his cheek to him that smites him:
he is filled full with reproach.Lamentations 3:30

They have gaped upon me with their mouth;
they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves
together against me. Job 16:10

As was the case when they led Jesus away to
the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the
elders and the scribes. ...And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face,
and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike
him with the palms of their hands.Mark 14:53, 65

The word for "smite" is not in reference to a
fist, as in war; but to an open hand, "slapping" someone in a mocking way as an
insult. Notice the two Scripture references both used the word "reproach," as in
defy or insult a person. This in no way reflects defending against a greater
harm to yourself or in defense of others, as in war. It would be quite different
if terrorists used slapping instead of deadly weapons.

The difference between worldly wisdom
& spiritual wisdomBeloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. 1 John
4:11

Ye judge after the flesh; I
judge no man.John 8:15

Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the
flesh: 2 Corinthians 5:16a

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.1 John
4:11

But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his
countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for
the LORD sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the
LORD looks on the heart. 1 Samuel 16:7

"If the world
hate you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. If you were of the
world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the world,
but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you."John 15:18-19

"But God commends his love (agape)
toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
(Romans
5:8) Even when we were dead in sins, has quickened us together with
Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) (Ephesians
2:5).

When God looks upon us He separates us from our sin, He sees
Christ in us, through the blood that Christ shed for us. Scripture says:
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: (2
Corinthians 5:16a).We are born
again of spirit, not flesh. "The spirit of the man is the candle of the Lord,
searching the inward parts of the belly." (Proverbs 20:27) - (See
Trinity for how
God created man in His image, a trinity.)

Thus, Christians, who have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians
2:10-16,
Philippians 2:5),
have compassion on the sinner while hating the sin because the Christian can
separate the sin from the sinner. The natural man cannot
grasp this. We judge no one, but discern and judge sin according to the Word
of God. (Hebrews 4:12-13)
Just as God forgives because that is His divine agape nature, we who are have
the Spirit of Christ in us are partakers of that divine nature. (Romans
8,
2 Peter 1:4)

Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he
preserves the souls of his saints; he delivers them out of the hand of the
wicked. (Psalms 97:10)

"Agape" love, or God's love cannot be grasped
by the natural man. It can only be understood by the spiritual man, one who
abides in Christ and Christ in him. (1 Corinthians Chapters 1 & 2,
John 15)

Even God's Elect Will Be Deceived

For there shall arise
false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders;
insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Matthew 24:24

Do not fall prey to those who say we are not
to judge one another. How are Christians then called to reprove the
world of sin, to be the "salt of
the earth" and the "Light of the World?"

"We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real
tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." Plato

Although many on the left, the biased media, education
administrators, and politically correct, and socially "moderate" politicians
have been duped by the likes of Kevin
Jennings, Christians must continue to focus on the calling the Scriptures
make clear.

Many have been deceived and conned by the misuse or
misconstrued definitions of "discrimination, hate, tolerance, diversity, normal,
bullying, morals, values, bigotry, and safety."

The culture wars can not be blamed solely
on the left's immoral quest for uninhibited sex with anyone, including young
children, and same-sex relationships, and criminalization of Judeo-Christian
Biblical concepts and virtues. Christians, whether shepherds or layman must
also take responsibility for having allowed this denigration into darkness.
While there are organizations and Christians that have honored Christ's command
to shine His Light and be the salt of the world, many Christian appear to be
simply spectators, with no oil left in their lamps. This apathy has
resulted in the myth of separation of church and state to become an unwritten
law of the land. Yet, separation of church and state does not exist in America's
Constitution or Bill of Rights. Worse still, it has allowed the likes of Kevin
Jennings and GLSEN, under the guise of "safety" to dupe, and yes, deceive not
only government-run school administrators, politicians (even "Christian"
politicians), the "mainstream" media, Hollywood elites, and most
disturbingly, many of God's elect as well.

The left has been successful in
deceptively redefining words like "normal, bullying, morals, values,
bigotry, hate, tolerance, safety, discrimination, and diversity," all in an
effort to criminalize Christianity in the hopes of silencing God's elect
completely. Without sufficient resistance, the left has advanced their agenda of
obliterating America's foundation of "unalienable Rights" being "entitled" only
if they do not violate "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." The left
prefers laws defined by the left and of the left, meaning anything goes to
satisfy self-pleasing impulsive pleasures regardless of health risks and
consequence, and where virtue is non-existent.

Thus as the majority of Christians remain
silent, and parents like Brian Camenker and David Parker are too few, and
most do not "gird up their loins" like men, the immoral agenda of the left
meticulously proceeds. While our legislators, school administrators, the
"mainstream" media, and Hollywood elites only hear from a minority of
Christians, the majority on the left continue to dupe more and more of our
children, and one can easily speculate what their future will entail, a society
based on a "village" concept instead of the historical foundation based on the
traditional family. For details, contemplate the state of children in the
Netherlands.

Therefore, as a reminder of our Christian
calling in Christ, hopefully the Word of God will encourage more of His
followers to take up the Armor of God instead of being spectators in this
culture war and make use of the "sword of the Spirit" to engage and confront the
darkness that is permeating this nation.